Group building and reporting back (St Andrew's Primary School, P6)
Group building and reporting back: lesson
Teresa Cairns has an MA in Spanish and social administration from the University of Glasgow and a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) from St Andrew’s College, Glasgow. She has been teaching for 18 years, 12 of these at St Andrew’s Primary School, and is now principal teacher. Teresa has taught at a variety of stages and currently has a P6 class. She has special responsibility for teaching maths and Spanish to P6 and P7 pupils.
P6 lesson
Teresa and her pupils sit in a circle on the floor and Teresa passes round a box filled with pieces of coloured paper. Pupils form into groups according to the colour they have picked.
Each group chooses a writer, reporter and recorder who get together in role groups. They must arrange sentences about their role in order of importance and present their conclusions to the class.
Each group then begins work on today’s problem and reports back at the end of the lesson.
| A problem solving lesson featuring a group building exercise | |
|---|---|
| Description | P6 pupils work on a group building exercise and use a cooperative learning approach in solving different problems |
| Duration | 2 minutes 26 seconds |
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| Transcript | A problem solving lesson featuring a group building exercise |
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